West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-09-08


In other words, God, who can make no mis-,
take, made man and woman for N speci0c
work,and to move inparticular spheres-man
10 be regnant in his realm; woman TO be don,i-
nant in hers. The boundary line between
ltshy ana Switzerland, between England and
scotland, Is not more thoroughly marked
man inns distinction between the empire
masculine and the empire feminine So ON
tirely diSsimilar are the fields TO which God
Saleu thein, that you can no more compare
tnem than you can oxygen and HYDROGEN.
water and grass. trees and stars All this
talk about the superiority of one soy 10 tbe
other sex IS an everlasting waste of ink and
sPeech. a Jewoler may have a scale 30
oencate that he can weigh the dust of da-
nonds; but where are the scales so delicate
that he can weigh i'm them affection AGAINST
anectlon, sentiment against sentiment
thought against thought, soul against soul
a mans world against n woman's world
lou come out with your stereotyped
remark, the man is superior 10 Xyo-
man in intellect; and then OMEN
on my desk the swarthy. ir6p-tvped
tnunderbolted writings of Harriet Mnrtinsau
anu Elizabeth Browning and George Eliot.
You come on with your stereotvne1 ren,orJ
about woman's superiority TO man i'm the itsn
Oh anection; but ask you where was there
more capacity to love than in John tho
disciple, and Robert McCheyne, tho Scotch.
man, and John Summerfeld the Methodist
and Henry Martin tho missionary The beort
OF those men was SO large that after Won
mad rolled into it two hemispheres there
Vas was room still left to marshal the
hostS Oh heaven and set up the throne
OF the eternal jehovah / denv In rnnn
the throne intellectual. deny TO woman the
throne aifectiOnal No human phraSeologv
wili ever define the spheres while there Is
an Intuition by which we know when n man
is IN his realm, and when n women is i'm her
realm, and when either of them is out of n
no OungIlng legislature ought 10 attempt 10
make a definition, or TO say: "This is the line
and that is the line.n Nv theory is that n
woman wants 10 vote she ought TO vote
ana THAT II man wants TO embroider and
Keep house, he ought to be allowed 10 ON
orolder and keep house. There are masculine
women and there arc effeminate men Nv
bheory is, that you have no right 10 interfers
Win any ones doing anything that is right
eous. Albany aud Washington might es we'll
uecree by legislation how high brown
thrasher should fly, or how deep n front
should plunge, as to try to seek ont tbe
height or the depth of woman's duty The
question OF capacity will settle finally tho
whole question: the whole subject When a
woman is prepared to preach She will nreocb
and neither Conference nor Presbvterv can
hhuer her. When a woman is prepared IN
move IN highest commercial spheres She viii
nave great influence ON the Exchange. and
no boards OF trade can hinder her want
woman TO understand that heart and brain
can overly any barrier that politicians NAV
set up, and that nothing can keep her back or
Keep her down but the question of incapacitv
There are women, know, of most undesir,-
aoie mature, who wander up and down the
country-haying no homes of their own. or
torSaking their own homes-talking abonr
e their rights; and we know very well that tbev
themselves are fit neither to vote nor lit To
Keep mouse. Their mission seems to be IN bu
initiate the two sexes at the thought of what
any one of us might become No one wonId
want TO I'VE under the laws that such women
Mo !Ii enact, or to have cast upon society the
gT1r n
shall show you this morning that the hest
rights that woman can own, she already has
IN her possession; that her position i'm this
country al TINS time is not one of commsera-
ton, but one of cOngratuation: that the
grandeur and power OF her realm have never
yet been appreciated; that she sits TODAY ON
throne SO high that all the thrones of earth
Pled on top OF eacn other would
not make for her footstoo Here Is fire
platform on which she stands Away down
below 1t are the ballot-box and the Congress-
lonal asSemblage and the Legislative hall
woman always has voted and always will
vote. Our great grandfathers thought they
We're by their votes putting WASHINGTON into
the presidential chair No His mother Inv
the principles she taught him, and Inv the
habits she lnculcated, made him President. IL
was Christian mothers hand dropping the
ballot when Lord Bacon wrote and Newton
philosophical, and Alfred the Great GOV
erned, and Jonathan Edwards thundered of
judgment to come. How many men there
have been insufficient TO stand the tost
70 which their moral principle was mt had
~ not been Tor wife's voice that encouraged
them TO do right, and a wife's prayer that
sounded louder than the clamor of partisan
snip! Why, my friends the right Of suffer
age as we men exercise it, seems to be n
feeble thing. You, a Christian man como
up TO the ballot-box and you drop your vote.
Right after you comes a hbertine or n soft
the oifscourlng Of the street-and he drOrs
ms vote; and his vote cOunteracts vo,Irs Rit
If IN the quiet Of home life a daughter bv her
Christian demeanor, wife 10y her industry
a. InoIheT py her taithfulness, casts vote in
the night direction, then nothing can resist it,
and the influence of that vote will throh
through tho eternities
Ny chief anxiety then is, not that woman
ave other rights accorded her; but that she,
~ the grace OF God. riss mo % the apors ia
non OF TIE glorious rights she already Dos
esSes. This morning I shall only have time
- speak OF one grand and al alb .orbing
ghUthat every woman has and that Is to
Lia"e nome happy. That realm no one has
ever disputed with her Men may com. home
az noon or at night and they tarrv com
parativeiy little while hut She an day long
governs 10, beauties t. sauctides b. M Is
"lIhin her power % make Do the most attrac-
Two place on earth. 10 i5 the only calm hqr-
Dor in this world You know as vol MS / d,
that this outside world aud Che business world
ls % long scene of io-tle and contention Tho
man "no has dollar struggles 20 keep 10. the
ti'll DIT ii.fl SUI U- TO trft DO. lIrDa
up IfceS down Losses Cams Misrep-
reoeniauons Goug.ngs Undressing Buy
81 oeprecatng s1lesmeu exaggeratiux.
tenants seeking les, rents landlords 10
mahding more. Gold hlgcttv StrurgIes
ABOUT Office Men who are in irving u keou
Tl men out trying 90 get boz. 5IiTs Cumb.es
Deiaications. Paulcs CafastrDuhcs %
woman THINK God you have "a home and
thnt you may b. queen BOO &c. Better b.tbcrs
tuth wear FiciOr.us COruupt Better ba
there than carry the purse OF priucasq
D our abode may b. humble but Won cam liz
your faith in God and your chearfuiuess az
nelneauof. gid b. With splendors such as an
uphOlrterers hand never yet kudleI There
are aDy1cs in the cIty-humble. two stories
-FOUR plain unp8pfred rooms undesirable
neZhborhood and yet there is "a man
mere THIS morning Who would dIs ou THAI
threshold rather than surrender it
why 10 B home. Whenever le thinks
OF o. Doe e.es angels of Cod hoysrIux
efounI il The ladders uf heaven sr. Iet
oo"n " tnat house. over Tho chilIs rough
cIlp tlerc are TIE chaufiuy4 Of augeis like
Lnpse ihat broke over Bethlehem Ttis houa
4hee rh.l'Ir.n may come up after while
shd they may sin IIEH position rul they
may nave an afhunuf residence. but they win
not Until their dying day forget chat humble
Io1i, under which their father r..tad. aud
tIieir mother -aug and iHe.r sisters played
On, ii you would gather up al. feuIer mem
ofles, OF Tho NgHf. aud shades Jf tho haarr
az Dan'lu9tnK. and reunions, al Ilal. fra
tern0l, pabInaL ard cyniIgai affections and
you Dad only iut four letter. with which 70
spell out that height and depth and lonyth
ani urnlILH. and m1nu .udn. and eternity r.f